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A COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF KALKI ON HORSEBACK, NEPAL, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
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09月10日 下午5点 开拍 / 09月08日 下午3点 截止委托
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A COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF KALKI ON HORSEBACK, NEPAL, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
This lot is a museum deaccession and is therefore offered without reserve

Finely cast, the tenth and final avatar of Vishnu is depicted seated atop a caparisoned horse raised on a stepped rectangular base, the right hand raising a sword and the left holding the copper-inlaid reins taut, dressed in a dhoti with a billowing scarf strewn across the shoulders, adorned with jewelry, the head crowned by a five-paneled tiara and backed by a foliate tiara. The underside of the base incised with a Nepalese inscription in Devanagari script.

Provenance: The Kienzle Family Collection, Stuttgart, Germany. Acquired between 1950 and 1985 by siblings Else (1912-2006), Reinhold (1917-2008), and Dr. Horst Kienzle (1924-2019), during their extensive travels in Asia. Subsequently inherited by Dr. Horst Kienzle and bequeathed to the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Radevormwald, Germany. Released through museum deaccession in 2024. The Kienzle siblings were avid travelers and passionate collectors of Asian and Islamic art. During their travels, the Kienzle’s sought out and explored temples, monasteries, and markets, always trying to find the best pieces wherever they went, investing large sums of money and forging lasting relationships to ensure they could acquire them. Their fervor and success in this pursuit is not only demonstrated by their collection but further recorded in correspondences between Horst Kienzle and several noted dignitaries, businesses and individuals in Nepal and Ladakh. Their collection had gained renown by the 1970s, but the Kienzle’s stopped acquiring new pieces around 1985. Almost thirty years later, the collection was moved to the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Radevormwald, opened by Peter Hardt in 2014. Before his death in 2019, Horst Kienzle bequeathed his entire property to Peter Hardt and legally adopted him as his son, who has been using the name Peter Kienzle-Hardt ever since.
Condition: Good condition with wear and manufacturing irregularities including casting patches, particularly around the mid-riff of the animal. The scarf with an old repair and associated soldering marks. Scattered nicks and scratches, encrustations, and rubbing to the deity’s face.

Weight: 404.8 g
Dimensions: Height 11.5 cm

Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related copper figure of Kalki, dated by inscription to 788 Samvat (1668 AD), from a Dutch private collection and exhibited by Hollywood Galleries, Hong Kong. Compare a related earlier Pala-period bronze depicting Kalki on horseback from Bangladesh, dated to the 10th century, 16 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 1987.422.2.

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拍品估价:200 - 400 欧元 起拍价格:350 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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